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Samchung re-education camp

연천읍, Italy

The Samchung re-education camp was a South Korean concentration camp set up during the early 1980s under the rule of military dictator Chun Doo-hwan. More than 60,000 people—with estimates up to almost 100,000 people, many of them innocent civilians—were arrested without warrants and faced violent t

reatment in such camps. The camp was located in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province.

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